Community Engagement
Selected Public Talks
Cranbrook Institute of Science - November 2023
Smithsonian Associates - June 2022
California Academy of Sciences NightLife - November 2020
UCMP Short Course - Tracking Megamammals - March 2020
U.C. Riverside Hewett Club Lecture - March 2019
Migration Series @ La Brea Tar Pits - October 2018
National Biodiversity Teach-In - February 2018
Under LA Conference @ USC - November 2017
Climate Change Series @ La Brea Tar Pits - October 2017
Tarfest Luncheon @ LACMA - September 2017
Legendary Cats @ NHMLA - August 2017
Extinction Discussion Panel @ La Brea Tar Pits - November 2016 (video)
Cotsen Institute of Archaeology - April 2016
East Bay Science Cafe - May 2015
Long Ago Yukon Society - Nov 2014
Art + Science
Pacific Standard TIme: Art + Science + LA — Mark Dion
Jacked: Panthera atrox @ La Brea Tar Pits/Craft Contemporary - November 2019
Art + Tech Walking Tour @ La Brea Tar Pits/LACMA - June 2019
Solar Reserve Walking Tour @ La Brea Tar Pits/LACMA - July 2018
Carbon (text for exhibit catalogue)
Pacific Standard Time: LAxLA — Project 24
Online
LAist on Tar Pits fossils and our climate future - January 2024
Business Insider on Pleistocene megafauna - November 2023
The Conversation - Pleistocene extinctions and fire Reprinted in various venues including the San Francisco Chronicle and U.N. Disaster Risk Reduction website
NHM-produced content (videos, articles, paleoart) related to Tar Pits Pleistocene extinctions study
Science Insider - fossil life cycle
BlooLoop - Reimagining La Brea Tar Pits
Fossil Finds at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
PBS Eons - Did These Giant Sloths Poop Themselves to Death?
Natural Curios: Unlocking the secrets of extinction
Extinction: Fear and Hope at the La Brea Tar Pits
South American Tar Pit Research
Where Have All The Mammoths Gone?
Selected Media
Science Magazine, NY Times, and LA Times, on Pleistocene extinction study - August 2023
LA Times on IUGS Geoheritage Site designation and Mysteries of the La Brea Tar Pits - October/November 2022
NY Times on La Brea Tar Pits reimagining - October 2022
LA Times on Mexico City mammoth discovery - July 2020
Beverly Press on Tar Pits of the World - April 2020
Gizmodo on La Brea Tar Pits coprolites - March 2020
Nature, Gizmodo, IFL Science, Daily Mail, Live Science, SYFY, and Scientific American on giant sloths in Ecuador - Spring 2020
CNN on fossil 3D scanning - October 2019
El Pais on Megatherium butchering paper - April 2019
Annenberg Media on USC-La Brea Augmented Reality partnership - September 2018
Readers Digest on Extinct Animals - July 2018
Larchmont Chronicle on Tar Pits Misconceptions - March 2018
ScienceNews on CT scanning fossils - October 2017
BBC on Pronghorn Conservation and Extinction - April 2017
National Geographic on South American Tar Pits - December 2015
Film
John Mulaney presents: Everybody’s in LA (Netflix) - May 2024
Telemundo on La Brea Tar Pits and Paleontology - November 2023
Life on our Planet (Netflix) - November 2023
Spectrum News on Pleistocene extinction study - August 2023
Science Insider on La Brea Tar Pits - August 2022
PBS Nova Ice Age Footprints - May 2022
PBS Lost LA Prehistoric Landscapes - 2022 Season
CBS/KCAL on STEAM Careers - January 2020
Smithsonian Channel (Top Ten Deadliest Beasts - Smilodon)
Voice of America on LA Metro - April 2019
Telemundo on LA Metro finds - March 2019
The Curiosity Show (Episodes 16 & 19)
Out and About with Roger Martin - May 2017
KTLA on Extreme Mammals - May 2017
Radio & Podcasts
Air Talk NPR show (LAist) - November 2024
Ignition Sequence podcast - November 2024
How to LA NPR podcast - January 2024
The Conversation podcast on Pleistocene extinctions study
Science Friday, Greater LA, and The California Report NPR coverage of extinction study - August 2023
The Not Old Better Show - May 2022
California Now podcast - March 2021
Paleonerds podcast - March 2021
CBC Quirks & Quarks on Ecuador sloth study - May 2020
Common Descent podcast - August 2019
NPR Air Talk on Tar Pits Renovations - August 2019
NPR Where we Live on Giant Animals - August 2019
California Senior Guide - January 2018
NPR Air Talk on Under LA - November 2017
Ear Biscuits podcast - September 2017
ESPN Radio Weekend Warrior - March 25, 2017
Southern California Public Radio interview about mammoths - March 2017